Re: [LARTC] HFSC and that ATM overhead problem (Another VOIP QoS post. Ahhhh)

2007-11-04 Thread Gustavo Homem
On Sunday 04 November 2007 12:04, Fog_Watch wrote: G'Day I would like to be able to use my VOIP telephone over a saturated ADSL link whilst enjoying optimum audio quality and utilising all of the bandwidth I pay for. It is about this situation that I write. HFSC appears to be the queueing

Re: [LARTC] HFSC and that ATM overhead problem (Another VOIP QoS post. Ahhhh)

2007-11-04 Thread Gustavo Homem
On Sunday 04 November 2007 23:16, Fog_Watch wrote: On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 12:46:37 + Gustavo Homem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't use Shorewall, but rather an iptables script which works for most scenarios: No disrespect, but that sounds too scary for me. I feel more comfortable

Re: [LARTC] MAN

2007-10-28 Thread Gustavo Homem
Hi, This is a very broad question as you have to plan not only the IP layer but also the underlying transport layer (SDH, ATM, Ethernet,). Maybe if you can narrow your question to more specific topics, someone will be able to help you. Cheers Gustavo On Saturday 27 October 2007 20:07,

Re: [LARTC] Redundant internet connections.

2007-06-22 Thread Gustavo Homem
On Friday 22 June 2007 15:22, Grant Taylor wrote: (Off thread topic.) On 06/22/07 06:54, Gustavo Homem wrote: This is absolutetly the way to do it with ADSL. I could not agree more. Using a modem in bridged mode minimizes the responsability of the modem/router which is a potentially

Re: [LARTC] ATM [Cell Tax]

2007-06-22 Thread Gustavo Homem
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 21:04, Nate Fuhriman wrote: I have read the thread at http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2006q1/018287.html and still don't know how to fix this problem. It appears alot of work has gone into it but the HOWTO is so out of date it doesn't even begin to addresses

Re: [LARTC] Shape incoming outgoing multiple-backbone traffic

2007-02-05 Thread Gustavo Homem
Hi, On Monday 05 February 2007 03:43, Rio Martin wrote: Dear all, I have 3 backbones for my local network. 1st backbone: down 1024kbps, up 1024kbps through eth1 2nd backbone: down 2048kbps, up 2048kbps through eth2 3rd backbone: down 1024kbps, up 128kbps through eth3 Local network:

Re: [LARTC] questions about HFSC, VoIP and (dynamic) ingress shaping

2006-07-31 Thread Gustavo Homem
Hello Daniel, If you don't want to patch the kernel and your machine has only two network interfaces you can shape the outgoing traffic to the internal interface instead of the incoming traffic to the internal interface. I have an example script here:

Re: [LARTC] questions about HFSC, VoIP and (dynamic) ingress shaping

2006-07-30 Thread Gustavo Homem
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:09:04PM +0200, Daniel Musketa wrote: Hello, I just found the great howto and started shaping my internet connection. The howto's last update is a liitle in the past now so I have some questions about how things are done the best way nowadays ;-) To ensure a

Re: [LARTC] questions about HFSC, VoIP and (dynamic) ingress shaping

2006-07-30 Thread Gustavo Homem
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:52:48PM +0100, Gustavo Homem wrote: On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:09:04PM +0200, Daniel Musketa wrote: Hello, I just found the great howto and started shaping my internet connection. The howto's last update is a liitle in the past now so I have some questions

[LARTC] skype specific QoS - assigning skype traffic to an HTB class

2006-07-19 Thread Gustavo Homem
Hi, What do you think about this solution for skype specific QoS: function HTB_shape { ### # Shapes the traffic of an interface, limiting the late # # Arguments are DEV,RATE DEV=$1

[LARTC] simple TOS based setup vs more complex ones

2006-07-10 Thread Gustavo Homem
Hi, After reading section 9 of LARTC it seemed to me that a pure TOS based QoS setup with be sufficient for a small newtork. Interactive packets could have the highest priority, second highest for DNS and small HTTP packets and lowest prio for all others. The advantage is that, the setup

Re: [LARTC] simple TOS based setup vs more complex ones

2006-07-10 Thread Gustavo Homem
Hi Martin, On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 03:45:49PM -0500, Martin A. Brown wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Gustavo, : After reading section 9 of LARTC it seemed to me that a pure TOS : based QoS setup with be sufficient for a small newtork. : Interactive

Re: [LARTC] simple TOS based setup vs more complex ones

2006-07-10 Thread Gustavo Homem
Hello again Martin, More comments below: : So the priorities are useless in real world with pfifo_fast, is : that it? This is bit surprising, IIUC. This is why I asked. Priorities are useless in the real world on a link that we expect to be congested (e.g. an ADSL link). If the link